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Filtering out specific drive letters

Hi, not sure if this has already been posted, but I am in the middle of creating some critical disk space alerts and need some help. Basically I want to create an alert that is triggered when the available disk space is 8% as long as it's not the C:\ drive. Is there a way to filter that out effectively? I've tried a few things and still not seeing the results I want, any ideas?

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berger

Hi, don't have access to our orion server right now so sorry if this is somewhat unclear.

To create an alert for remaining disk space being less than 9%

Open your orion server
Go to programs>Solarwinds Orion>Alerts>Advanced Alert Manger>Configure Alerts
You need to name it something in General tab and can edit other options, then click Trigger Condition
Make a volume monitor that's going to have in the simple options something like "volume percent used is greater than 91" (or "...equal to 92" if just want it to alert for 92 and no higher).
Then go to the Alert Suppression tab and add alert supression for whatever volumes you want on specific servers (e.g. something like "Volume Name is equal to" and then pick the servers and specific drives you want to be omitted)(if this stops alerting on what you want, switch from using suppression to using not equal to in trigger with "not equal to")

As far as I know there isn't any way to monitor a specific drive across all servers, without some massive suppression list.

EDIT: Scatch that. For 5 go to and look Congo's answer. Should work for what you are trying to do.

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berger

Hi, don't have access to our orion server right now so sorry if this is somewhat unclear.

To create an alert for remaining disk space being less than 9%

Open your orion server
Go to programs>Solarwinds Orion>Alerts>Advanced Alert Manger>Configure Alerts
You need to name it something in General tab and can edit other options, then click Trigger Condition
Make a volume monitor that's going to have in the simple options something like "volume percent used is greater than 91" (or "...equal to 92" if just want it to alert for 92 and no higher).
Then go to the Alert Suppression tab and add alert supression for whatever volumes you want on specific servers (e.g. something like "Volume Name is equal to" and then pick the servers and specific drives you want to be omitted)(if this stops alerting on what you want, switch from using suppression to using not equal to in trigger with "not equal to")

As far as I know there isn't any way to monitor a specific drive across all servers, without some massive suppression list.

EDIT: Scatch that. For 5 go to and look Congo's answer. Should work for what you are trying to do.